...olve strapping an infant to a molded board. In some cases, an analgesic is applied to the pubic area, but many are performed without pain control. The foreskin is forcibly separated from the head of the penis with a metal instrument, and then cut off.
In addition to pain and the wound's exposure to urin...

...olve strapping an infant to a molded board. In some cases, an analgesic is applied to the pubic area, but many are performed without pain control. The foreskin is forcibly separated from the head of the penis with a metal instrument, and then cut off.
In addition to pain and the wound's exposure to urin...

...ate hemostasis, and deliver the precise cut of the foreskin in a single actuation.
The AccuCirc uses two...onents to complete the circumcision procedure: the foreskin Probe/Shielding Ring and the Single-Action Clamp. The foreskin Probe/Shielding Ring ensures that the glans is pro...

...ults of Quinn's study appear in the March 26 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine .
Quinn said there are several reasons that removing the foreskin of the penis might help reduce transmission of certain infections. The foreskin, he explained, has two different sides. The outside is much like reg...

...r things, researchers now know that they need to understand the role of the foreskin in HIV transmission because uncircumcised men who were vaccinated had a hig...nfected.
This suggests that scientists need to better understand how the foreskin affects the immune system's response to HIV, Buchbinder said.
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...DS infection by 50 percent to 60 percent among heterosexual men. Circumcision appears to provide protection, because it rids a man of cells inside the foreskin that seem to be especially susceptible to AIDS infection, explained study author Gregorio A. Millett, a senior behavioral scientist with the Centers f...

...eventive effect is still being investigated.
One theory is that the foreskin has a very thin lining and suffers minor abrasions during intercourse, maki...odeficiency virus (HIV) to enter the man's bloodstream. Another is that the foreskin is rich in Langerhans cells, whose surface is configured in such a way that...

...was no circumcision. His parents decided to move away from the tradition of celebrating their sons birth in Jewish customs.The custom of removing the foreskin from the penis.
There was no crying, no scalpel, no blood, no ``mohel'' - the person who traditionally performs ritual circumcisions in the Jew...

...lls vulnerable to HIV infection than the external surface. Furthermore, the foreskin acts as a physical barrier, trapping HIV next to the mucosal surface of the...ve longer, potentially increasing the risk of infection. Small tears in the foreskin as a result of intercourse could also promote entry of the virus. After cir...

...50%. The results are consistent with a similar clinical trial by French researchers last year, which stated that circumcision, the surgical removal of foreskin from the penis offered up to 60% protection rate.
National Institutes of Health financed the two studies from Kenya and Uganda, which compared HI...

... by researchers in Australia, shows that the inner foreskin has the largest concentration of Langerhans' cells... circumcised men, researchers found that the inner foreskin has a significantly higher density of Langerhans' ...atin thickness between the remnant foreskin, inner foreskin or shaft skin.
The second study, by research...

...that consists of living human keratinocytes (cells that make the upper skin layer) and fibroblasts (cells that make collagen) -- derived from neonatal foreskin following a circumcision and preserved for medical research.
From this initial study, Dr. Falanga and his team were very encouraged by their earl...

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...ctions, such as treating sexual transmitted diseases and providing condoms and behavioral counseling," Bailey said. "We can't expect to just cut off a foreskin and have the guy go on his merry way without additional tools to fight against getting infected."
Opponents of circumcision have speculated that ...

...ed on to the offspring. Jews and other religious groups have been circumcising men for hundreds of generations with no noticeable withering of the foreskin among their descendants. However, Lamarck did not count injury or mutilation as a true acquired characteristic, only those which were initiated by th...

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